The Chineese DO have spoons, and have for a VERY long time. The standard table setting is a long necked spoon and chopsticks. They also use a specialized liquid spoon for soups. You can see both types of spoons in any decent Chineese restraunt.
As to forks, bear in mind that food preparation methods evolved with the utensils. Once you know how to use them properly, chopsticks work much better for the local cuisine than do forks.
Chopsticks don't work as well for western food for the same reason that forks do.
By the way, it takes some learning to use a fork, too -- a couple of times I've seen asian friends stab their gums while using a fork for the first time. (Yeah, I was living on the other side of the Pacific at the time.)
The Tech is better, but it seems that our court system is going to put Rambus on the top, considering all the lawsuits that the Rambus consortium is winning.
According to Ars Technica, only Micron remains.
This means that we're going to pay extra for our RAM habits. I believe that the CEO of Intel earlier stated that Rambus forcing out DRAM was a scenario that Intel was intentionally pushing for.
Initially, I was going to say why human searching is such a bad idea...
However, most of my family (a bunch of engineers) seem to think that the best form of internet searching is asking me to do it for them.
Two days ago, an associate of military persuasion requested I do some searching. After telling him about google, he still wanted me to do the search in my free time at work. He said I could be his 'intelligence analyst'.
Since there's a strong incentive to get your site listed in the search engines, the search criteria will always be exploited.
A friend of mine left the company I work for and started making porn pages for an australia based porn company.
He is supposed to make 400 pages per month, all somewhat different. He gets a bonus based on how many hits are generated, and a commission based on signups from his banner ads.
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes Who has custody of the custodians? Who will watch the watchers? In other words, who do you call when the bad guys are the cops?
Intelligence not created by God must be by definition, of the Devil, and therefore evil
Hold on there, Tex. What definition? Are you are saying that all creations of man are, by definition, of the devil? Since your post is, presumably, a creation of man, it must follow, by your logic, that it is of the devil. Unless, of course, you're an avatar of god. (Do you claim such?) That being the case, you cannot contribute to any discussion or field of endeavor without advancing the work of the devil. Think about it.
Molog is right. This translation needed to be posted. I would have bablefished it if Molog hadn't done it for me. I suspect many others would have done the same, had Molog not spared us the trouble. Anyone moderating this forum properly would have had to bablefish it. This particular circumstance demanded it. The moderation point would have been much better spent elsewhere, or on the preliminary post sending it to -1 hell.
Sounds like you're running Win32. At work it's required for our apps, so I feel your pain.
A solution: Just launch a new window from the icon. In other words, click the icon on your desktop, and it will open to your start window (which, on my system, is blank)
Hope this helps a fellow traveler consigned to M$ hell at work. hanzie.
Actually not, Ryan. The water/antifreeze in your radiator does stay liquid in your car. That's precisely the reason it's under pressure, so it stays that way.
A real problem in high performance engines is the growth of steam bubbles. Once a steam bubble forms, it insulates the combustion chamber from other coolant, and the temp in that cylinder soars. This leads to catastrophic detonation, bent valves and holes burned in pistons.
Yes, in theory, it would be wonderfully efficient to use phase changes to cool an engine, but in practice, it doesn't seem to work.
On the other hand, this use of heat pipes is interesting. Building race cars is part of the family business, and I'm going to look into it.
I was certain when I first heard about the release, and I'm still convinced that Mr Lucas intends to time the sale of his movies in various media to maximize profits.
In other words, Phantom Menace will be sold on DVD just as soon as the VHS sales taper off. The idea is to sell the movie to everybody twice.
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In response to your obvious troll...
The Chineese DO have spoons, and have for a VERY long time. The standard table setting is a long necked spoon and chopsticks. They also use a specialized liquid spoon for soups. You can see both types of spoons in any decent Chineese restraunt.
As to forks, bear in mind that food preparation methods evolved with the utensils. Once you know how to use them properly, chopsticks work much better for the local cuisine than do forks.
Chopsticks don't work as well for western food for the same reason that forks do.
By the way, it takes some learning to use a fork, too -- a couple of times I've seen asian friends stab their gums while using a fork for the first time. (Yeah, I was living on the other side of the Pacific at the time.)
Radar detectors aren't reliable, because many troopers use only stopwatches and a known distance. The radar is off.
The police radios, however, are always on.
I would like to get one of those detectors. Police frequencies aren't hard to determine.
Wonder what kind of range it has?
I think you just earned the "top suggestion of the quarter" award.
Now that were going to have some "AMD SMP lovin," even on the cheap Durons, Intel is really going to be feeling a pinch.
Especially since the new mobo's supporting this are going to be arriving soon.
I'm putting off the current upgrade until I can get one of these babies.
Intel, meanwhile, has removed SMP support from the Celerons. Oops, bad timing.
The Tech is better, but it seems that our court system is going to put Rambus on the top, considering all the lawsuits that the Rambus consortium is winning.
According to Ars Technica, only Micron remains.
This means that we're going to pay extra for our RAM habits. I believe that the CEO of Intel earlier stated that Rambus forcing out DRAM was a scenario that Intel was intentionally pushing for.
Initially, I was going to say why human searching is such a bad idea...
However, most of my family (a bunch of engineers) seem to think that the best form of internet searching is asking me to do it for them.
Two days ago, an associate of military persuasion requested I do some searching. After telling him about google, he still wanted me to do the search in my free time at work. He said I could be his 'intelligence analyst'.
My reply would be inappropriate for this forum.
Since there's a strong incentive to get your site listed in the search engines, the search criteria will always be exploited.
A friend of mine left the company I work for and started making porn pages for an australia based porn company.
He is supposed to make 400 pages per month, all somewhat different. He gets a bonus based on how many hits are generated, and a commission based on signups from his banner ads.
He's doing pretty well financially
It's a good thing, since we'd probably try to destroy any extraterrestrial culture we bumped into.
Or they'd destroy us.
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes Who has custody of the custodians? Who will watch the watchers? In other words, who do you call when the bad guys are the cops?
The algorithm apparently relies on massively parallel computing and wants only a single correct answer.
The massively parallel part could come through efforts such as seti and distributed.net type efforts. Hopefully that would be enough.
I think this might be perfect for
1. Geneology (searching ancestors)
2. DNA decoding
both of these have good questions that will only have one answer, and both are popular enough that folks would donate screensaver time.
Both are also fields where partial data is thrown in, with good estimates of accuracy on the partial data.
hanzie
Words cannot describe the total shock I feel upon seeing an intelligently argued viewpoint in favor of astrology.
If this is a troll, it's the best I've ever seen.
hanzie
Sorry about the troll rating, I was moderating, and it jumped in by itself.
I'm e-mailing rob.
I'm also posting in the hope that it will just blow my moderation away.
Well, pete-classic, there goes your TS.
Better luck next time.
Don't sweat too much, though. You haven't let anything slip that wasn't obvious already. Just remember to preview in the future.
Need to look a little more closely at the fine print. The power supply is 15V and 3A. That's what acutally plugs into the port labled "DC IN"
Not 110AC. That's just what the supplied transformer likes.
Molog is right. This translation needed to be posted. I would have bablefished it if Molog hadn't done it for me. I suspect many others would have done the same, had Molog not spared us the trouble. Anyone moderating this forum properly would have had to bablefish it. This particular circumstance demanded it. The moderation point would have been much better spent elsewhere, or on the preliminary post sending it to -1 hell.
It contains an amino acid that hits the let's-go-to-sleep center of your brain.
That's why bodybuilders often have turkey breast for late night snacks.
This is just pushing people and companies into using free alternatives.
In one month, when most have changed, at great cost, intelligent PHB's (they exist) will say "This time, don't use formats that can bite us later."
Meanwhile, free alternatives have just received that much more exposure and support.
Unisys supports free software while making a profit. Smooooooooth.
Sounds like you're running Win32. At work it's required for our apps, so I feel your pain.
A solution: Just launch a new window from the icon. In other words, click the icon on your desktop, and it will open to your start window (which, on my system, is blank)
Hope this helps a fellow traveler consigned to M$ hell at work.
hanzie.
Actually not, Ryan. The water/antifreeze in your radiator does stay liquid in your car. That's precisely the reason it's under pressure, so it stays that way.
A real problem in high performance engines is the growth of steam bubbles. Once a steam bubble forms, it insulates the combustion chamber from other coolant, and the temp in that cylinder soars. This leads to catastrophic detonation, bent valves and holes burned in pistons.
Yes, in theory, it would be wonderfully efficient to use phase changes to cool an engine, but in practice, it doesn't seem to work.
On the other hand, this use of heat pipes is interesting. Building race cars is part of the family business, and I'm going to look into it.
As to capillary limits, remember, giant redwoods run by capillary action.
I don't see why you'd have to have a 10 meter limit.
I was certain when I first heard about the release, and I'm still convinced that Mr Lucas intends to time the sale of his movies in various media to maximize profits.
In other words,
Phantom Menace will be sold on DVD just as soon as the VHS sales taper off. The idea is to sell the movie to everybody twice.
hanzie.
Considering that Hemos posts at 2, I'd say your karma rating has to be pretty high.
29 January 1999
#16075
Thanks for the idea. I'd been wondering myself, and I have my original password e-mail too.
Hanzie